5. Those from near and far will mock your infamous name and great chaos.
6. Look, Israel’s princes, every one of them, have joined forces to shed blood in you.
7. In you they treat father and mother with contempt. In you they oppress immigrants and deny the rights of orphans and widows.
8. You despise my holy things and degrade my sabbaths.
9. In you slanderers show up to shed blood. In you they eat on the mountains. In you they do obscene things.
10. In you a father’s nakedness is uncovered. In you menstruating women are violated.
11. Every man engages in detestable practices with his neighbor’s wife, every man defiles his daughter-in-law with obscene acts, and every man violates his sister, his own father’s daughter.
12. In you they take bribes to shed blood. You collect interest and fees, you profit by extorting your neighbor, and you neglect even me! This is what the Lord God says.
13. I now strike my hands over your ill-gotten gain and blood that’s been shed in you.
14. Will your strength and courage endure when I deal with you? I am the Lord: I speak, and I act!
15. I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you throughout the lands, and so I will remove your uncleanness from you.
16. When you are degraded like this in the sight of the nations, then you will know that I am the Lord.